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Ban on nudification technology passes House by wide margin

By Lisa Kaczke
Rep. Jessica Hanson debates against a proposed amendment to HF1606 Thursday on the House Floor. She sponsors the bill that would prohibit a user to access, download or use a website, application, software, program or other service to nudify an image or video. (Photo by Michele Jokinen)
Rep. Jessica Hanson debates against a proposed amendment to HF1606 Thursday on the House Floor. She sponsors the bill that would prohibit a user to access, download or use a website, application, software, program or other service to nudify an image or video. (Photo by Michele Jokinen)

Artificial intelligence can be used for good, but it also can be used for evil.

Anyone can take a non-explicit photo of someone, upload it to a platform that offers an AI nudification feature and create a non-consensual, sexually explicit image or video of the person. Those images and videos often end up on the dark web, shared on social media or exchanged for money.

Nudification technology has “empowered and enabled pedophiles and sexual predators around the globe. It has harmed children who are made victims by their cruel peers, women who are made victims by men they have trusted for decades. And what’s worse is that these predators are increasingly profiting while wreaking this havoc,” said Rep. Jessica Hanson (DFL-Burnsville).

She sponsors HF1606 that would prohibit a user to access, download or use a website, application, software, program or other service to nudify an image or video. The advertising of any such service would also be banned, and a legal avenue is provided for the victim against the violator.
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